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September 1977 we had two specials to Warwick Road station took up all the scoreboard enclosure but the Mancs had the paddock to the left remember a few Chels climbed a fence to our right took it to them but got nicked including old Wiff throughout the game the mob in the paddock kept chanting"Babsy Babsy show us your arm" at the end of the game the old Bill kept us behind giving us a lecture about keeping calm when the gates open and there is enough of them to protect us from the waiting mob outside soon as the gate opened up we just charged through broke the police line and laid into them we had offs all the way back to the station past the cricket ground running them everywhere good days

 
sparkplug said:
September 1977 we had two specials to Warwick Road station took up all the scoreboard enclosure but the Mancs had the paddock to the left remember a few Chels climbed a fence to our right took it to them but got nicked including old Wiff throughout the game the mob in the paddock kept chanting"Babsy Babsy show us your arm" at the end of the game the old Bill kept us behind giving us a lecture about keeping calm when the gates open and there is enough of them to protect us from the waiting mob outside soon as the gate opened up we just charged through broke the police line and laid into them we had offs all the way back to the station past the cricket ground running them everywhere good days
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I remember Old Bill saying something similar before the game, we were lined up by the cricket ground waiting for the second train to pull in and were told we'd be looked after if we kept quiet and behaved ourselves, followed immediately by a very loud rendition of Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner. Usual suspects giving the pep talk about sticking together and not running or we'd answer to them on the way home, load of scruffy Mancs coming out of a block of flats across a field opposite the cricket ground and thinking better of it as they got close, then loads of offs at the traffic lights as Utd seemed to come from everywhere. We had no choice but to stick together and came out of it unscathed and laughing like lunatics, as you did when you used to go against the odds and get a result. Inside the ground, Chelsea scattering the Stretford End for a few seconds till they were overwhelmed by weight of numbers, as mentioned the Babs song and Bill Garner and after the game proud of being the first London team to take it to them up there, great day.

 
From what I understand, 1984/1985 was a year when it seemed to reach its pinnacle. Not just with Chelsea but the rest of English football too. Chelsea had a couple of rucks that year (Sunderland, Millwall)...Millwall went mental at Luton...and of course the best fans in the World were responsible for the deaths of 39 people at Heysel (sorry, I meant the stadium, the police and Chelsea fans disguised as Scousers were responsible).

After that, the authorities clamped down and it took a few years to re-emerge.

 
85', millwall at ours in the cup when they started a fire on the NS terrace? was in the east stand upper and there were plenty of them up amongst the seats but we all seemed a bit subdued for some reason.

300 + older faces at Solihull(?) pre match for Brum away a few years ago got respect from everyone."We thought you lot had all gone away". 

 
Yep, '85 night match, pretty cold and they started burning their coats and shirts etc...

Mental.....

 
Soulboy said:
When would you say our firm was at its strongest? I'm going mid nineties. They probably didn't see as much activity as 10 years earlier, but before the banning orders kicked- the thing with the banning orders was many of their mates also dropped out with them- they used to share lifts, if he's not going Im not going etc etc

If you look back at the Millwall games in 97- the West Stand was a zoo that night- even Millwall fans admit we were much more impressive than them over 2 games, and that's saying something. That's my take on a subject which isn't everyone's cup of tea. What's yours?
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i was in the west stand that night against millwall, in the seats above the benches up by the temporary seating where millwall where,There was i remember, a millwall supporter wearing one of those nafnaf puffa jackets that was bright yellow,who looked like a f**king  banana on a day out. Who was giving it the barry mcguigan, giving it all the throat cutting thing, w**ker hands, and he got singled out by us in the west stand "banana man is gonna die" he sussed we was singling him out, and he ended up moving from the seats next to west stand to the seats next to the east stand, we went over the little wall into the benches at the final whistle,and it just went off with the old bill!  Kicked right off as well after the game down by the petrol garage on the kings road where we had a good ten minute off, before the old bill got any where near it. also remember a skip being emptied in about 90 seconds, down one of the side roads that some bright spark left there. happy days

 
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Has anyone ever seen the documentary about Millwall hooligans from 1977? It is on YouTube and very funny.

 
George Mills said:
Haha. That's the one. With the patronizing, posh voice over. Then the middle aged child worker who appears to be grooming some young lad through football violence. Comedy gold.
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Yeah it was funny. The lad living with he's mother was hillarious . I suppose its a tough part of London so in away I admire how they stick together. lunatics

 
If i had to pick an era from.....A) DHs or B) SHs ...Id plump (marginally) for the DH era...This era sw me too young , but took over my footy era thoughts

 
bluegraham said:
Yeah it was funny. The lad living with he's mother was hillarious . I suppose its a tough part of London so in away I admire how they stick together. lunatics
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The lad with the big hair? Yeah in a way it is admirable but also sad as they're so small minded. London has changed a lot since then mind you.

 
Knew most of them as a few of them drank in my local which was called the Squire in them days the lad with the big hair and glasses was Billy Piummer young lad was Gary Roberts usually got on with them well except of course around September 1976 when there was a couple of rows between our pub the Saxon which was Chels and the Squire I remember one Sunday night Little Tommy from Paddington (RIP)  and a few others came over for a drink the Millwall lot came up from the squire and ran most of our mob up the road to Lower Sydenham station I got done pretty bad with a glass luckily I had one of the thick wrap round cardigans on which took most of it as they tried to do me in the back funny enough was drinking with them a couple of weeks later as if nothing had happened funny old game football eh!!

 
Did you know the guy with the glasses and rollneck? The one who wanted to stick a pint glass in a Northerner's facking head?

 
sparkplug said:
Knew most of them as a few of them drank in my local which was called the Squire in them days the lad with the big hair and glasses was Billy Piummer young lad was Gary Roberts usually got on with them well except of course around September 1976 when there was a couple of rows between our pub the Saxon which was Chels and the Squire I remember one Sunday night Little Tommy from Paddington (RIP) and a few others came over for a drink the Millwall lot came up from the squire and ran most of our mob up the road to Lower Sydenham station I got done pretty bad with a glass luckily I had one of the thick wrap round cardigans on which took most of it as they tried to do me in the back funny enough was drinking with them a couple of weeks later as if nothing had happened funny old game football eh!!
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The squire on Bromley road? Always plenty of mW all in there.
 
rayc said:
The squire on Bromley road? Always plenty of mW all in there.
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Yeah it was the pub featured in the Panorama program became a Wetherspoons a couple of years before I moved down the line understand now demolished and is  a block of flats the Saxon is now Lidls  

 
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